Global warming (cooling or whatever their latest belief is…) could hit tomorrow, and we could all melt or freeze.

ET Aliens could invade Earth, or a huge comet hit us that NASA forgot to mention.

Hell could freeze over…

…or not.

The point of the above is that baring something outside the norms:

our nation.

and quite likely our factory-produced home industry with it,

are poised for a big rebound.

Why?

Because there is a new administration coming to Washington, with a fresh set of eyes that wants to fix things, rather than talk or endlessly lobby about national issues.

Tim Connor, CSP.

“I don’t care whether you are a liberal, conservative, independent or something else – the bottom line with this year’s election was simply more of the same or something new, different or unique,” said Tim Connor, CSP to MHProNews in a guest column, linked here.

If President-elect Trump continues his current paths, don’t be surprised if we see the largest economic revitalizations for the U.S. in years; one that that could eclipse the growth of the Reagan/Kennedy eras, and it would perform that way for similar reasons.

It’s basic, common-sense economics.

Reducing regulations,

modifying (lowering) tax rates,

incentives for business off- or on-shore

will be magnets for what is still the globe’s largest economy.

That reads $4 Trillion dollars cost to our economy, and frankly it isn’t just a Democratic caused problem, because the Bush Administration also created plenty of costly regulations too. Dramatically reducing bad regulations doesn’t ‘cost,’ it saves and pays. Credit: George Mason University.

If high taxes and regulations are among the factors driving businesses out of the U.S., then lower taxes and more business friendly regs should serve to bring them back.

Is that oversimplified? Yes. There are also factors such as skilled workers, wages, transportation, and energy costs; to name a few.

Which is why:

encouraging “all of the above” energy – making the U.S. more competitive,

ending the union/public education monopoly,

doing infrastructure and border/immigration reform,

are all pieces to a puzzle that could do what a well-known campaign’s slogan touted: Make America Great Again.

We tend to forget that it wasn’t regulations and high internal taxes that boomed the U.S. economy in the 1800s and 1900s. It was low taxes (save on imports) and low regulations that encouraged domestic growth.

Racist? Sexist? Homophobic? Xenophobic?

Did SoftBank’s Masa Son (photo above) give you the sense that he felt that President-elect (PE) Trump was racist or xenophobic?

Does billionaire Peter Thiel give you the feeling that the president-elect is homophobic?

Does Dr. Ben Carson give you the sense that he thinks Trump is anti-minority, or attracts racists?

Dr. Carson, top left, Donald Trump, top right. If you, me, or anyone else gets targeted with a billion-dollar smear campaign, any of us can be made to look pretty darn bad. It will take time and performance for President-elect Trump to overcome the claims of racism, sexism, etc. Proof and time will win Americans over.

When one looks objectively, the reality of our incoming president-elect is very different than the negative spin that he was hit with by political opponents and their henchmen.

The multi-billion-dollar smear campaign of the election cycle certainly had an impact on Trump. Certainly, the Billy Bush hot mic episode didn’t help him; but did you notice that all those ladies who accused him during the closing weeks of the campaign suddenly vanished once the voting was done?

The president-elect is pragmatic. He is right when he says healing the nation’s divisions will take time.

Regarding the cover story, President-elect Trump told Fox News that the nation was already divided, and that he will work to bring it together again.

Doing what he promised is the best possible tonic that will cure the fears and frustrations of the bulk of the nation. Some of those who voted against him are already coming on board with the recent good economic news that has come from the efforts made in NYC’s Trump Tower.

Think of these early victories:

rising U.S. stock markets, responding to his tax, regulatory and infrastructure plans,

saving jobs at Carrier and

the $50 billion dollar SoftBank deals,

all of them send a strong signal that U.S. economic growth lies ahead.

There is simply nothing that compares to the ability of modern manufactured homes to deliver quality, appealing and affordable home, at a price that the U.S. Census Bureau says can be half that of conventional construction. It is the most cost-effective form of unsubsidized housing in the U.S.. So, free market solutions can be useful for the MH Industry.

If HUD gets a free-enterprise secretary and appoints a HUD Code MH program administrator to replace Pam Danner that makes “Enhanced Preemption” a reality, then happy days will be here again for thousands of more home buyers every month (speaking of enhanced preemption, please see what JD Harper had to say on that topic, linked here).

To the Brink…

The Masthead sees the painful facts as follows. America was frankly at the brink of serious decline, prior to Secretary Hillary Clinton’s concession to President-elect Donald Trump.

Foreign and domestic policies alike were a mess.

It is no more racist to praise Dr. Ben Carson for having and using a brilliant mind – and thus being a potentially good fit for HUD – than it is to analyze President Barack Obama’s handling of housing, healthcare, Dodd-Frank and a slew of crony-capitalist and international debacles.

Objectively stated facts are facts, be they about a woman or man, and regardless of race, faith, party, etc.

The gender and race cards aren’t dead, but they have been so over played by the left and their allies that in the rise of Trump, the cry of “racist!” and the like has been revealed as mere tools of manipulation. The race/gender/other cards are like a modern reminder of the boy who cried “wolf!”

Much of the elite media is scrambling, along with elitist Democrats and Republicans. Trump is Tweeting and YouTube-ing his way into a new communications era.

The anti-Trump portions of the media face a number of challenges, as the president-elect can tweet, YouTube and hold big rallies as ways of communicating directly with the public without their filters. Who will win?

Tim Connor is correct. Trump will succeed, because his ego and drive-to-win demands that he deliver on his promises, and because he truly does seem to love America. The president-elect has not taken the oath of office yet, and has already placed a big down payment on becoming the greatest jobs creating president the nation has seen, just as he promised.

The SoftBank and Boeing announcements yesterday – and rumors of a another possible big deal with Taiwan – each signal business and investors that a new Sheriff is coming to town.

The president-elect and a team of free enterprise, pro-growth, America First thinkers – like Dr. Ben Carson – could shake this nation up in very good ways.

Some Will be Hurt…but for How Long?

The media is far from dead. But there will either be:

doubling-down by what we will call the pro-Clinton/anti-Trump branches of the media,

or they must take a more “fair and balanced” approach.

Crony Capitalism isn’t Dead

The America First, pro-growth, jobs creation Trump Agenda may not look the same as the failed Solyndra types of cronyism. Because there is likely to be a test the new sheriff has for what deals make sense, and which don’t.

What will be the Trump test?

The Masthead thinks the indicators tell us that the Trump Tests will be simple.

Is the proposal a good deal for America?

Will it be a good deal for job creation?

Watch for the barriers of entry for business and new endeavors to be lowered.

All of this could bode very well for manufactured and modular housing.

Beyond Hell Freezing Over, There are Caveats

We won’t look today at some of the questionable messaging of the past year or so, led by a certain non-profit group that brought no tangible, positive results to manufactured housing by their efforts in the last two years.

Protecting and promoting the good name of MH will be critical.

The point is, the truth well told can set us free. MH Fairy Tales that are slanted, poorly told or tortured can still harm MHVille.

As the president-elect said at his North Carolina thank you rally, the next chapter is ours to write.

Let’s think this transition through, and then act decisively. Because an opportunity like this to serve millions more Americans in a pro-growth environment may not come again. Lots of new jobs will lead to more homes of all kinds being sold.

Before we dive into our Featured Articles for the month and our headline topic, a sincere tip of the hat to Jim Visser at the Journal. He is going out with head held high, he’s way to the plus side of the ledger and he earned it.

Don’t be surprised if more is heard from him and his 36-year young operation. Learn more, linked here.

DAAD = Dramatic! Advent! Adventure! December 2016!

We all know what December is, so let’s tee this topic up and our Featured Articles below with three quick dictionary definitions:

the first season of the Christian church year, leading up to Christmas and including the four preceding Sundays.

noun: Advent

CHRISTIAN THEOLOGY

the coming or second coming of Christ.

noun: Advent

ad·ven·ture

adˈven(t)SHər,ədˈven(t)SHər/

noun

an unusual and exciting, typically hazardous, experience or activity.

“her recent adventures in Italy”

synonyms: exploit, escapade, deed, feat, experience

“her recent adventures in Italy”

verbdated

engage in hazardous and exciting activity, especially the exploration of unknown territory.

“they had adventured into the forest”

(Credits for the above, Google dictionary)

Image credit, Team Crave, used here along with other images shown under fair use guidlines.

All time moves at precisely the same pace, yet we’ve all experienced time when it seems to move more slowly, or more rapidly.

For tens of millions, this time between Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year’s often seems to go by very quickly. Jewish and Christian holidays, secular celebrations, shopping, gatherings, parties, and travel.

January 2017 will be upon us soon.

What will that new year bring?

Properly looking at history – recent and more long term actions – may offer clues.

But ultimately, each of us responds or reacts to the ebbs and flows of tide-like events.

The Washington Post and others reported that some 200 counties that voted for Barack Obama where switched to voting for Donald Trump. This election was status quo vs. shaking up the system. Trump significantly outperformed Romney with minorities. Trump attracted many blue-collar union voters, of all backgrounds. Millions believed that Trump would not be business as usual. Yet some on the left are trying to paint this as an election about “white nationalism;” what nonsense. The Masthead’s writer doesn’t know a single person who voted for Donald Trump who is racist, do you? As Democrat James Carville once quipped, “It’s the economy, stupid!”

E Pluribus Unum

“From the Many, One.” This is the translation of the Latin motto on much of U.S. money.

It is fair to say, along with the president-elect, that healing the nation – and what ails it – will take time.

Some are still in shock, having bought into their own or other’s oft-repeated narrative that the election was over before November 8th. They believed that Secretary Hillary Clinton would be crowned by the many elites in media, arts, philanthropy, globalists, business and voters as our next president.

The elites weaved a tale on sensationalized facts, painting Donald J. Trump – and several of his key team members – as racist, misogynistic, xenophobic, homophobic, monsters and con artists with a terrible temperament that could only end in nuclear winter for the world. To them, the GOP nominee had to be stopped.

Perhaps part of the problem was that a similar play book was used by Democratic candidates against Republicans for many, many years – going back to at least the time of Ronald Reagan.

Once elected, did President Reagan bring us to nuclear winter? Hardly. Instead, he brought us the end of the then Cold War, and along with faith-filled freedom seekers in Poland and elsewhere, brought about the fall of the Soviet Union and their Eastern European empire.

Back to events in this recent race.

It’s as if now President-elect Trump’s opponents went to see D’nesh D’Szoza’s movie – Hillary’s America – plus the Clinton Cash movie – got out their spin machine, and projected onto Trump all that those two video documented that the Clintons’ and their political machine were guilty of doing.

An “America First” – Hostile Takeover by a Populist…

To produce relevant and useful news, you first must absorb news. You always begin with more information than you can use, and select what frames and builds out a story well told that will be useful to readers.

We won’t look today at why and “how MHProNews got so much right on this past election” – as a regular reader put it – when so many in media got it so wrong.

We will note that Team Trump first beat successful, accomplished GOP rivals. Then Trump’s unorthodox campaign upended his Democratic rival, all while beating much – not all – in the media.

It was akin to a hostile takeover in business, and Trump beat the elites in politics and the media at their own game.

By doing so, much has been exposed or brought into sharper focus.

The results will become known.

But we already have clues.

The first three weeks after Trump’s unprecedented victory left some in shock, denial and protesting.

ROC Leaders Meet at Texas Conference
by RC WilliamsEsthela Garza, president of the Pasadena Trails resident-owned community (ROC), and new member Paula Maldonado, were featured on a panel discussing the basics of manufactured housing at the “I’m Home” conference in San Antonio November 14th-16th.Read more…

British Giant Eyes Cavco Industries Holdings
by RC WilliamsLegal & General Group PLC, which has made significant moves recently in the manufactured and modular housing segments, held its stake in Cavco Industries Inc. (NASDAQ:CVCO)during the second quarter of 2016.Read more…

Anyone confident enough to run for the highest office of the land ought to be even more confident that he can dive into fixing what’s wrong at the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD).

Among the anti-Trump media outlets that slammed the pick, Slate’s shot began with their headline, a veiled reference to Dr. Carson being a world-renowned neurosurgeon. “HUD Is Essential to the Fight Against Poverty. Ben Carson Will Lobotomize It,” Slate said.

Born in Detroit, Michigan, on September 18, 1951, Dr. Ben Carson is a famous neurosurgeon, philanthropist, author, evangelical, Tea Party favorite, and a prior GOP candidate for the presidency. After dropping out of the race, he was one of the first of his rivals to endorse the eventual nominee, Donald J. Trump. He has been a loyal and wise advisor and surrogate, routinely promoting Constitutional, free market solutions. Photo credit, Biography.

But last year, the left-leaning Des Moines Register called HUD the poster child for federal waste, fraud and abuse.

Trillions have been spent on so-called poverty programs that in many cases have proven ineffective. By contrast, U.S. poverty rates were falling – due to private sector, free enterprise business activity – prior to the establishment of the so-called Great Society programs.

Carson said, “I feel that I can make a significant contribution particularly to making our inner cities great for everyone,” in a Facebook posting, adding that “an announcement is forthcoming about my role.”

Carson’s Op-Ed on the Washington Times, linked from the image below, holds important clues as to how he views HUD and the free market.

Home ownership has fallen sharply during the POTUS Obama administration years. Chart credit, FactCheck.

IBD quite correctly pointed out that it was Clinton Administration polices – later protected by Democrats in the House and Senate – that tilted the nation towards the housing/financial crisis meltdown of 2008.

If experts got HUD into its current mess, perhaps a pro-free market, clear-thinker like Carson could assemble the team that could correct it.

Bulldozing vacant houses in Carson’s native Detroit has become a symbol of how good intentions – but bad public policy by so-called experts – has harmed America.

During the Obama years, their answer has been to double-down on more government intervention – example Dodd-Frank – in matters that their party’s policies helped screw up. That isn’t to absolve Republicans of responsibilities, but it’s historic fact that Dodd-Frank and the 1990s era Clinton housing programs were Democratic plans.

While the Manufactured Housing Institute (MHI) and other associations have taken issue with a number of HUD decisions, such as the on-site completion rule, it is safe to say that no association in manufactured housing has been a more consistent critic of how the manufactured housing program has been operated than MHARR.

The Manufactured Housing Association for Regulatory Reform (MHARR) has expressed great delight at the victory of Donald Trump, and joined with GOP Congressional leaders and the president-elect in calling for all pending regulations to be halted.

Among the great ironies of modern Washington DC bureaucracies, is that the solution for a significant part of the nation’s affordable housing crisis is found in manufactured housing. Who says? The current HUD Secretary, Julian Castro.

“The United States faces an affordable housing crisis. And manufactured homes serve as a vital solution for folks of modest means; particularly in rural areas,” Castro said in the video below. Castro makes an important point. But instead of getting out of the way of the manufactured housing industry, HUD’s current manufactured home program director and staff have routinely created roadblocks instead.

One of the issues that several associations and MHProNews have promoted for years is the failure of HUD to enforce the enhanced preemption of manufactured homes, which was established by law in the Manufactured Housing Improvement Act of 2000.

Even among industry professionals, too few are pointing out today the hot news from just 2 years ago, when the GAO sang the praises of HUD Code manufactured housing in their report, linked below.

The GAO 2014 – download the report here – demonstrates dramatically that even when financed with a higher – but unsubsidized – loan rate, MH is so affordable that it is the lowest cost form of new permanent housing in the U.S. today. The solution to the affordable housing crisis is hiding in plain sight, and agencies like HUD and the CFPB have created hurdles that have limited this free market solution from easing the affordable housing crisis.

While manufactured home (MH) placement wouldn’t work as well as modular housing could in the high-rise elements of metropolitan areas, MH would work in hundreds of municipal neighborhoods from coast-to-coast.

On multistory projects, modular homes are an important tool for building affordable, quality homes and would create more jobs in the process. Click above to see that story.

Cisneros is right in saying that Dr. Carson thinks outside of the box. He is a pro-free enterprise, pro-limited government believer that epitomizes opportunity for all in America.

Housing is vital, but it isn’t brain surgery. Career politicos and policy wonks have seen poverty rising in recent years, despite record spending. Dr. Carson could be just the right medicine needed to bring sanity back to HUD, while other members of the soon-to-take-office Trump cabinet will address other parts of the bloated and dysfunctional federal government.

We will keep readers posted on whomever will be named for this vital role in restoring the American Dream for all. While the Trump Transition Team will no doubt settle on a fine person for HUD, the Masthead would be pleased to report to readers that the doctor is in. ##

(Image Credits are as shown above.)

L. A. “Tony” Kovach is the publisher of MHProNews and MHLivingNews teams, is an MH industry veteran, a respected consultant, expert and speaker.

The article linked below in the Patch suggests some of the reasons why manufactured housing pros – no matter who you supported in the primaries or general election – should be hopeful for positive outcomes from a Trump Presidency.

But as or more important is the fact that there are many ways to take an issue, and make it into an opportunity to favorably spotlight manufactured housing.

When speaking at events, one of my questions to the audience might be – “Do you believe that the media impacts your sales, for good or ill?” In reply to that question, it is normal for every hand in the room to be raised.

Part of the long-term plan for MHProNews and MHLivingNews.com was a simple idea. Trade media – trade journals and multimedia – are a subset of the larger “mainstream media.” As such, we could influence media, as media.

Whatever you think about the mainstream media, this much is certain. Our society and culture are influenced by it. People may or may not agree with an article, news report or editorial, but there can be real value to having certain manufactured home related topics in the mainstream media.

As the publisher of the manufactured home industry’s two leading trade media sites – MHProNews.com and MHLivingNews.com – we can often become part of that mainstream media conversation in a variety of ways. Let’s look at two more examples of mainstream media picking up articles about manufactured housing.

The Hill is a respected news site in Washington, DC. It is routinely read by Congress, those working on Capitol Hill, lobbyists and those working in federal offices. Many others from coast-to-coast follow The Hill too.

We strive to practice what we preach. Over the years, from major metro publications such as the Chicago Sun-Times News Group, to local or regional markets, we’ve practiced engaging with the mainstream media.

It just makes good sense.

Imagination Station

Beyond the public and our factory-built housing industry’s professionals, among those who visit MHLivingNews.com and MHProNews.com are researchers, media, investors and policy advocates. Federal officials have cited us in their research.

We have an increasing impact on the media and others who influence or make policy.

Professionals who team up with us can increase and accelerate that impact in ways that benefit their location(s).

Via our:

own publications, or

press releases that have been picked up by hundreds of mainstream media sites each time we do a release – which we did many times in the past 18 months and

via columns we write for the mainstream media (see examples above),

we are influencing the broader conversation with each effort.

We have routinely engaged third party experts to debunk outdated or errant ideas about manufactured homes that causes people to think anew about our industry’s homes, communities and services.

In depth articles that feature third party experts demonstrate that manufactured homes don’t just look nice, they are a smart option for millions.

Let me state for the record that “puff pieces” and pure marketing efforts clearly have their place.

But what those efforts will oftentimes miss are the more qualified home seekers and those who influence or make policy decisions that – right-or-wrong, for-better-or-for-worse – impact out home owners, shoppers and our industry.

We have never done these efforts alone. From day one, we’ve shared multiple MH Industry Voices and viewpoints.

By tackling those nettlesome issues that hold MH back, we are promoting via truthful story telling what is necessary to make manufactured housing an ever more obvious solution to the nation’s growing affordable housing crisis.

There are a variety of ways that others – or you or your organization can – work with us. Ways that will help businesses serve more people, more profitably. The truth well told, pays. Routinely engaging the media has a cost, but it also pays.

That’s one important lesson from the Patch.

We must either define ourselves, or others will define us, often to your, our home owners and our great industry’s detriment. ##

on TV that Donald Trump, his chief strategist Steve Bannon or his followers are racists, xenophobic or whatever other demeaning words they can think up,

well, maybe that’s why respect for the mainstream media is at or near historic lows?

A recent poll revealed that only 6% of the public now has a great deal of trust in the mainstream media.

Reality Check

Manufactured housing has suffered under the heavy hand of government more than many other industries, more than most, save exceptions such as coal.

This “Drain the Swamp” post-election result is being followed by a new effort at intimidation and manipulation of “We, The People.”

Alan Dershowitz, a Democratic supporter, said he sees no evidence of racism or anti-Semitic behavior on the part of the Trump team’s anouncement that Steve Bannon will be his chief strategist.

Dershowitz also said that if Congressman Keith Ellison, the black Muslim running to head the DNC chair wins that spot, Islamic radicals will cheer that outcome.

When Barack Obama was elected president, there were no riots, no arson or organized protests. People differed with him on policy, and they fought over policy.

Now almost 8 years later, the U.S. now:

has doubled the national debt,

sees how ObamaCare is failing,

has the lowest home ownership rate in a generation,

has the weakest GDP in any post-recession recovery in over 50 years,

shall I go on?

MN-D Keith Ellison, the nation’s first elected Muslim leader, is in the running for the new Democratic National Committee (DNC) chair role. Alan Dershowitz said that he will be as embraced by radical Islamic groups, as Steve Bannon or President-elect Donald Trump might be by fringe groups. Dershowitz’s point isn’t to defame either one of them, rather, it is to underscore that one’s followers has no bearing on the person being followed, or their beliefs and policy positions.

Democratic policies in the cities they control have failed:

inner city blacks,

Hispanics and

all other ethnic groups,

as schools fail,

businesses and jobs flee and crimes rises.

Those are just facts. Painful ones, but still facts.

When Democrats and Republicans both Succeeded

Democratic President John F. Kennedy and Republican President Ronald Reagan both shared an interesting policy that worked for both leaders.

As investors read the tea leaves on the impact of President-elect Donald Trump’s tax, regulatory and economic plans for the nation, stocks have rallied and the dollar has hit a new high. Manufactured housing professionals should not let left wing protests, labels or other tactics keep the incoming president from delivering on his promises. As Warren Buffett has said, the President-elect deserves our nation’s support.

It is common sense.

If companies leave the U.S. to go to other nations because they have cheaper taxes and easier regulations, then it makes sense for us to bring those companies back via lower taxes and regulations so they can invest in the U.S., create more good jobs – and over time – grow the U.S. tax base too.

If the past week is any indication, there will be a ton of accusations and allegations against the incoming Trump administration by their political and media opponents, for the same reason as they had billions of dollars of attack ads and negative media before the election.

Since 2010, Democrats have lost something like 1,000 seats at the federal, state and local levels.

President Obama has been personally popular, but that popularity did not transfer to Secretary Hillary Clinton, nor to others in his party when he wasn’t on the ballot. His policies have not proved beneficial.

Note that Obama’s personal popularity disproves the false portrayal of Americans who voted for Trump as racists. Nonsense. The left-leaning, and anti-Trump Washington Post demonstrated that counties that voted for Obama once or twice, about 1/3 of them flipped to Donald Trump.

Americans are ready for a real, positive change.

So long as President-elect Trump’s policies get implemented – which are similar in some ways to those of Presidents Kennedy and Reagan – it will be good for:

“It’s the dawning of a new day. After the shock and elation or disappointment wash over us, and we all have taken a collective deep breath, we can begin looking to the future. And in that future I think it is safe to say that changes, well, they are a come’in…

For any who might not yet be aware, in addition to President-Elect Trump heading to the White House, both the House and Senate will now be controlled by a Republican majority. All three branches of government are in Republican control. What will this mean? It simply means that there is little in the way of the Republican policy agenda.”

DJ Pendleton.

– DJ Pendleton, Texas Manufactured Housing Association.

“TRUMP VICTORY A BOOST FOR AFFORDABLE HOUSING AND CONSUMERS…

With a personal background in business, rather than government, Mr. Trump – during the just-ended campaign – has been a consistent critic of innovation-stifling and job-killing overregulation and regulators who ignore or rationalize the far-reaching negative impacts of such regulations on the health of the economy, smaller businesses and consumers….”

M. Mark Weiss.

– Mark Weiss, Manufactured Housing Association for Regulatory Reform (MHARR), part of a longer and more detailed analysis to MHProNews, linked here.

As part of an extended pre-election message sent to MHProNews by now-President Elect, Donald J. Trump, the candidate said the following:

“Every day I wake up determined to deliver a better life for the people all across this nation that have been ignored, neglected and abandoned.

I have visited the laid-off factory workers, and the communities crushed by our horrible and unfair trade deals. These are the forgotten men and women of our country. People who work hard but no longer have a voice.

President Elect, Donald J. Trump, photo credit, Spectator.

I have embraced crying mothers who have lost their children because our politicians put their personal agendas before the national good.”

I have no patience for injustice, no tolerance for government incompetence, no sympathy for leaders who fail their citizens…”

U.S. vote-count in red that went for Donald J. Trump in 2016, totals shown are as of 11.10.2016. Popular vote 60.5 million, Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump, 60.1 million as of 11.11.2016. Note: campaigns today are based upon winning the electoral college. If they were being done based upon popular vote, the strategies, campaigns and vote counts would naturally be different.

The Post-Election Democratic View from MHVille

MHProNews has reached out to specific Democrats within the MH industry, and others who supported candidates besides Donald J. Trump and Mike Pence as his VP. We plan to bring you any comments by Democrats or others shared in the days ahead. We also encourage others who were pro-Trump to sound off via:

We have consistently stated that our views do not necessarily represent the views of our sponsors, and have been clear that our support is based upon stated policies and principles. More on that later.

Your Masthead scribe has taken some push-back from certain people during this past year on a variety of fronts, the election being one of them.

Senator Joe Manchin’s comments are proof that there are fair minded people in all political parties, some of whom are willing to call-out those who cross a line. It should be noted that Manchin is rumored to be considering becoming a Republican.

That noted:

We at MHProNews have and continue to get a steady stream of input from industry professionals across the spectrum, many of whom are not able to speak on-the-record due to their organization’s rules or posture.

That input comes from our clients and sponsors (in operations small-to-large), from readers and ‘insiders,’ so it is ‘connected’ to what the grass-roots realities of our industry are, not just some whim, wish or some party’s agenda,

We routinely use a principled approach, that has and will continue over time to serve the manufactured housing industry’s interests well.

The factory-built home industry needs a ‘fearless’ voice that will call it as we see it, no matter which way some think that the industry’s or the nation’s political winds are blowing.

America and manufactured housing have suffered under an over-regulated, over taxed economy. Democratic President John F. Kennedy and Republican President Ronald Reagan both worked to lower taxes and the regulatory burden, and saw a surge in revenue, better jobs and economic growth as a result.

While respecting the rights of one and all to take whatever political or policy view they wish, we have and will continue to advocate for what we believe has historically been proven to work.

Bets for the Future?

If:

Democrats do what President Obama and Secretary Clinton promised, to support President Trump and work for his success, and

If Donald J. Trump gets the same 2 years of doing what he has proposed legislatively that Barack H. Obama was given by his party, then

let’s watch and see how well the nation is doing when the 2018 mid-terms come up.

If Alan Amy is right, and Dodd-Frank is repealed,watch for a boom in 2017 and beyond in MH.

My bet? Barring some unforeseen sneak attack by an enemy, or similar upheaval or disaster, look for:

the economy will be moving ahead far better,

millions of Americans will see their circumstances improving economically and

a range of issues that the president-elect has promised to address will be advanced in ways that will insure a Republican victory in 2018.

And manufactured housing industry professionals, investors and business owners will be doing far better than any time since the 2008 collapse.

As a closing note, one we’ve shared before, that 2008 collapse was started by Clinton Administration policies that were supported by Democrats and some Republicans, but that other Republicans warned were going to upset the financial system.

Democrats fought against the reforms sought that are noted in the video above, changes that might have averted the economic collapse. It is revisionist history and political spin to say anything different.

Lower taxes, less and smarter regulations are pro-growth, and historically will work to grow the economy for the benefit of millions.

What national and state associations have been fighting to change for many years now, may get advanced in rapid order in 2017, thanks to President-Elect Trump and a Republican majority, so long as they all keep their promises and Democrats support their efforts where they can.

Happy Veterans Day, and a salute to them all our those in law enforcement who protect our nation and streets.

Let’s catch up mid-week, and please stay tuned to the red-hot Daily Business News. As an FYI, our readership is soaring in the last two months, many thanks to our team, writers, sponsors, readers and all for making that happen. ##

(Image credits are as shown above.)

The next POTUS….at Congress and Expo in Las Vegas, L. A. “Tony Kovach, right, leading MH publisher and consultant.

The messages are already coming in. Celebration and shock. Joy and surprise.

The results for the race for the White House, the control of the House and the Senate, are now largely known.

The GOP will hold the House and Senate, and has won the White House for the first time in 8 years. See the videos below.

People from all racial, religious, economic, political and other groups came together in a variety of ways to pull off the upset win, making Donald J. Trump the 45th President of the United States.

It is indeed a movement; a peaceful, American political revolution.

There are many people – millions – who played a part, small to large, in making this outcome happen.

(Note any ads on YouTube videos are from third parties.)

While it is a time to celebrate, it isn’t a time to arrogantly spike the ball.

This isn’t a time for Trump supporters to rub the noses of those who favored the Democratic or third party nominees. The tone at 3 AM this morning of the president-elect, who truly is not a typical Republican, was the right one. It is now time to come together. Please see his and other videos on this page.

President Barack H. Obama said the same thing in his televised announcement this afternoon.

For months, close followers of our site – and there are thousands of you out there – know that we’ve been part of the alternative army of unpaid volunteers who have worked for a true change in Washington politics. Compared to the role of giant sites like Drudge or Breitbart, or talk radio or the more fair and balanced mainstream media, our role was modest.

But everyone that shared on social media, spoke to friends and neighbors or did what they could can feel good about this victory.

The opportunity for sanity to return to domestic and foreign policy is real. The first step is done; the next steps await once the transition takes place and the new president, vice president and Congress are sworn in next January and begin their work.

Paid Pundits, Wrong, Wrong, Wrong…

As recently as last week in Chicago, hundreds of manufactured housing industry pros listened to paid experts who explained why Hillary Clinton would be the next president of the U.S.

Those intelligent fellows were not alone.

From the

#NeverTrump crowd – who did all that they could to prove that they were ‘right’ by working to keep Donald Trump from winning – to,

political opponents,

to paid experts, pollsters and commentators…

an amazing array of people got this election outcome wrong, wrong, wrong. That’s not to rub it in, that’s a simple statement of fact.

They didn’t understand the mood of the tens of millions who handed Trump the victory. Some in media and politics had a feeling, but most gave America the ‘party line,’ hoping to manipulate or depress the pro-Trump, pro-change crowds’ votes.

They failed.

Trump delivered on his promise to show the nation how to win, against the fiercest onslaught of negative media and negative advertising that has ever been leveled against one person in the history of politics.

For those who think that the Republicans could have had a better candidate, let me make a simple point. If someone targeted the saintliest person among us with billions of dollars of attacks, they’d look radioactive too.

Trump took it all, and kept on fighting. However you voted, give the man credit for never, ever quitting.

Those who honestly missed it…

There were some who were mistaken, not manipulating or spinning, just simply missed it about this Trump, “America First” movement.

They didn’t look at the internals of the polling, that we outlined on the Daily Business News and here on the Masthead blog in the days ahead of the November 8th voting.

Donald Trump has exposed what he called “the rigged system,” a cry that Bernie Sanders had also used.

A new coalition was formed by Trump, of:

Blue collar, often union workers, many who would traditionally be Democratic voters,

Evangelicals and Catholics, who are pro-life and were disturbed by the pounding that religious liberty was taking in America,

Small- to mid-sized businesses, who were being crushed under regulations and tax policies,

The unemployed and underemployed,

Minorities who broke with their ‘leadership’ in enough numbers to make the margin of difference last night,

Vets, military and law enforcement,

2nd Amendment supporters,

Anti-open border, anti-free trade (bad trade) deals that have so harmed American manufacturing,

People from across the political spectrum, who have been saying for years that the nation is going in the wrong direction.

There are millions who bought the lies and exaggerations spun against Donald Trump.

The nation didn’t elect a saint. They elected a winner. A successful business person – a builder with ties to modular housing! – who used sharp elbows to achieve an upset win against billions of dollars spent and used against him and the movement he represents.

Click here or on the image above to go to page, and see the image credits, videos and more.

How will he govern? Just look at the people he has already surrounded himself with.

Look at his acceptance speech.

Here are some of the keys for MH Pros regarding the stated Trump agenda:

Lower taxes,

less and more common sense regulations,

repeal Dodd-Frank

repeal and replace ObamaCare,

bring back trillions offshored,

opening up domestic energy production,

smarter trade deals,

the rule of law and more…

It won’t be easy, but change is coming that will be good for all Americans. Your Masthead scribe believes that to be true. Watch for housing to grow, and so will our part in the housing market.

To see the article shown above, please click the image above or the link here.

Let’s watch as this historic movement rolls on, and don’t be surprised if business booms in 2017…and beyond.

Thank God. God blessed America. Voters responded. Now, let’s get to work to make this new chapter in America happen for the good of all, shall we? ##